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Vast Membership of Peasants’ Union Startles Russia.

Will Not Pay Taxes

Members Decide to Boycott all State Owned Business.

Refuse to Join Militia

(Special Cable Service.)
St. Petersburg, December 1. — (Via Fyatunine.) — The swift organization and vast membership of the
newly-formed peasants’ union proves even more startling than the
revolutionary organization of the workers in the towns. The great districts
in the provinces of Southwest Russia are joining the union en masse. In
thousands of instances the people prove that they are much less simple and
poor than they are usually said to be. They are largely able to buy rifles
without extraneous subscriptions, and they agree in electing district
committees. Their attitude towards the Government is similar to that of the
urban artisans, but whilst the latter seek to destroy the regime by strikes
and mass, the agitation in the great towns, the peasants are deciding to
boycott all state-owned businesses, and refuse both to pay taxes or to supply
the annual rolls of military conscripts. The enlistment department of the War
Office, which should have now nearly prepared the lists of the conscripts for
1906, has been unable to obtain any names or figures in the large provinces.
The workmen’s union, in welcoming the co-operation of the peasants’ union,
tells them that the proletariat is struggling under the banner of social
democracy, and will not limit its action to the foregoing means, but only
when armed will the nation in revolution be able to repulse reaction and
reach the democracy’s ideal.

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